User talk:Seasaltsandwich

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Seasaltsandwich, good luck, and have fun. Pam  D  15:09, 25 January 2023 (UTC)  Pam  D  15:09, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

Francine Toon
Hallo and thanks for your contributions to this article. It's on my "Watch list", because I create it, so I noticed your improvements to it, including adding a photo - thanks! There are a few things to point out:


 * References in Wikipedia are cited after punctuation, not before. I've corrected all I could spot here, but please note for the future.
 * When you cite a newspaper article it's essential to give the date, and desirable also to cite the author where one is named. And it's also important to get the article title right. I too found that using an automatic aid, in my case the "Reftoolbar", came up with an article title of "'Scotland is a very bloody place"...", but the displayed article title is "The young Gothic crime writer ..." (though I glimpsed the other one while the article was loading). I've upgraded the reference to correspond to what we see - and to give the date and credit the author.
 * When you cite one thing more than once, please name the reference and then cite it by name - just look at the changes I made to the article and you can see how it works.
 * It's better to be consistent over date formats. The established references all give the access-date in the form "25 January 2023", so I've changed yours to match.
 * I've tweaked some of the other refs to make them more elegant - there are a range of different citation templates like cite news which make it easier to cite newspapers etc.

I also found a typo in my original work on the article - I hadn't managed to link the magazine Wasafiri because I'd spelled it wrong!

There's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia but it's an interesting journey! Happy editing. Pam D  15:43, 25 January 2023 (UTC)